Lumière & Company
Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors
1995-12-20 | 88 minutes
Plot Summary
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Cast
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Romane Bohringer(segment "Claude Miller")
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Bruno GanzDamiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
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Ticky Holgado(segment "Claude Lelouch")
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Alan Rickman(segment "John Boorman")
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Liam Neeson(segment "John Boorman")
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Stephen Rea(segment "John Boorman")
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Sven Nykvist(segment "Liv Ullman")
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Lena Olin(segment "Lasse Hallström")
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Pascal Duquenne(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
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Nathalie RichardNinon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
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Neil Jordan(segment "John Boorman")
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Aidan Quinn(segment "John Boorman")
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Isabelle HuppertNarrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)
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Otto SanderCassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Recommendations
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The Great Train Robbery
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An Inconvenient Truth
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Shanghai Triad
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Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me
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Tickets
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It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
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The Lumière Brothers' First Films
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Ikiru
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
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Lost Highway
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Joker
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Cruella
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Knives Out
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
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Parasite
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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The Return
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Ammonite
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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Re-Animator
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